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1 i "' vbhh Â„" k>mgmtmmwâ€”^â– h bsv Chicago examiner vol xv no 191 a m wednesday Chicago august 1 1917 wednesday u rs&gfl price two cents ffg gggg j allies's drive takes 11 towns president losed in foof fight huh mm wilson leaders house conferees open finish fight to knock out provision for congressional committee on the conduct of the war 11 t hington july 31 the f Â£ mate and house conferees ' ! on the food control bill were still deadlocked over the provision for a joint committee of congress on expenditures and conduct of the war when they adjourned tn-day to meet to-morrow it was made plain thai tha house conferees acting under the control of the president and the administration are making a last-ditch fight to stricken out the provision for the joint congress committee so bitter ly opposed by the president wilson supporters tear that if the house is given the opportunity to vote there will be a scant majority in favor of the joint committee and the president will then have no other choice but to accept the com mittee or veto the entire measure wilson sees criticism of himself in clause the president has taken the stand that the appointment of a joint com mittee would be a serious reflection upon him and upon his conduct of i the war up to this time congressmen who ... or such a com mittee declare that the president wrongly interpreted the motives of congress that the committee would simply represent congress as the war-making branch of the govern ment and prevent any scandals in expenditures thai might disrupt the country and affect its war spirit wilson men defeated in fight on measure to-day on a motion by senator hoke smith of georgia senators chamberlain smith of georgia and smith of carolina all democrats voted to strike out the clause four senators gore kenyon page and warren voted against the motion and it was lost the senate conferees then voted in favor of reporting the bill back to both houses with the statement uiat they had reached an agreement on the eilire bill with the exception of the provision for the joint committee and to ask for further instructions deadlock for weeks may be result it was after the senate conferees i had voted to report the bill back that the house conferees showed their un willingness to ask instructions from the house on this provision and dis closed their plan to fight to the end to defeat the provision in confer ence as the food control bill originated in the house the house conferees hold the whip hand and can hold back a report indefinitely in order to work their will , the fight will be renewed to-day and if no agreement is reached before they adjourn the deadlock may last for weeks will die lie pierce 3d defense i german positions pulverized bv heaviest barrage fire war ism seen houses forty miles aww rocked by bombardment london july 31 eleven vh lages and to"-ns and more than 3,500 gerrhan prisoner were captured by the british to-day in the opening hours of sir douglas haig's mighty offensive in flanders the long-expected storm broke at dawn this morning franco-british troops overran and consolidated the german first line trenches on a front of approximately 30 miles trenchea being seized at some points to a depth of two and a half miles and smashed on to the teuton's thir line the positions they jjl had been pulverized by thefl edented british bombardmertÃŸ average gain to v de9th of two miles the average depth of the mm was two miles at steenatraete^m gain was just that distance v^b the capture of bixschoote the brÃŸ ish advanced their lines two and on3h half miles on the ypres open road Â« mile advance was made the fate of lille roubaix and turl coing three great industrial town of northern france depends upon th germans withstanding the allies on slaught offensive developing momentum rapidly the great battle one of the fiercest of the war is still rs.cing the al lied offensive according to the night report of the war office is exceeding all expectations and is developing momentum rapidly the front now aflame extends from warneton close to the franco-bel gian border line north to dixmudea which lies ten miles from the shore \ of the north sea the lys river is j the southern boundary and the i bloody yser the northern the great , ypres salient lies just north of the ] center of the line stormed in the opening hours of the mighty offensive which began at dawn the j german first line trenches probably i the nearest impregnable ever built â– were leveled by a rain of british shells never equaled in modern war 1 fare barrage fire heaviest / / ever raised i the british infantry aided jy i strong french forces went into the battle behind the heaviest barrage fire ever raised before an attacking army as the storm broke the german line held by the army of crown prince rupprecht was sent reeling backward all three lines of trenches i were overrun and consolidated be tween the northern side of the vpres salient and boesinghe from boes inghe to dixmude the northern limit of the drive the second line german i trenches are to-night in ijruisi^j hands bombardment shakes houses 40 miles away m the nitiht official statement r m berlin dismisses the great tl ive u i paragraph it asserts tin , lie brit^m sh were repulsed on oth dd i tu ypres and were ible to vain onyfl one shell cratei in t german mm fense zone aw the london war office on tht^^r russ embassy staff in Chicago friday i washington july 31 boris b bakhmetieff russian ambassador 1 and the embassy staff will visit chi r,cago friday and saturday a trip rk\v:!l be made to the great lakes eiaval station and the jewish quar fc^^a polish demonstration will r^rl germans eager for peace call from vienna copenhagen july 31 the semiofficial vienna frem demblatt says it is able to an nounce authoritatively that ger many gladly will act on peace overtures coming by way of vienna the cologne gazette a copy of which has been received here reproduces the fremdemblatt's statement u s flotilla chases u-boats destroyers engage submarines after merchantman is sunk and another attacked american naval base ln british waters july 31 amer | ican destroyers to-day reported hav | ing engaged two submarines simul taneously six miles distant causing both of them to speed away and sub merge without firing a shot one of the submarines had just sunk a steamer by gunfire the sec ond was attacking a merchantman when the destroyers opened fire the second submarine which is described as a super type almost as long as a destroyer raced off and submerged at the first shots but the other wnici had sunk the steamer remained up sevc al minutes while the destroy er droppd shells around her firl ge>s too close only whe a shell splashed within twenty five terds of the submarine did she Ã¼brmvg . according to the crew of the e watched the attack fron â– . -â€¢â€¢ it close by the latu ted by the destroyers and hi here a french tank und for amer ica came into port to-day with a 30-foot hole in her bow as a result of a fight with a submarine the tank er was twice attacked in the first attack early in the voyage she easi ly beat off the submarine and reached a point 400 miles toward america hole torn in ship she was then attacked by a:'ottie submarine the shells of which spite the stout resistance of " laimc er's gunners shattered the piict house smashing the compass ana tore a gaping hole below the water line the tanker began to settle and the crew . abandoned the ship the submarine disappearing the crew rowed away in a rough sea but later surprised that the tanker did not sink returned to her and managed without bearings to bring her to port rita beauregarde noted actress dies new york july 31 â€” mme rita beauregard noted character act ress in private life mrs margaret harris died at bellevue hospital to day she was born in boston fifty six years ago played with robert mantell anl roland reed and was character ead with the dearborn stock comjany of Chicago u.s steel will pay 53,918,872 war tax new york july 31 â€” the united states steel corporation will pay 53,915,57 to th government in war income a'ld excess profits taxes it was sho:.n in the financial state ment of the directorate to-day colorado to give 10 in gold to soldiers denvmr july 31 â€” the colorado legislate voted to-day to give every sÃŸier of the state a 10 gold piece i r rain to day to break heat 20 are killed official record shows mercury hit highest point at 98 but this is surpassed on streets many factories close at noon laborers in open forced to quit 100,000 throng beaches high temperatures with fatality lists are reported from the following cities : town temp 1 Chicago 98 20 detroit 104 o rochester fi y 104 1 philadelphia 101 s < imiliii 100 1 cleveland 104 14 tittnliiirkh 02 11 new york 8 23 the backbone of the heat wave is broken â€” following twenty deaths and hundreds of prostrations from the heat in Chicago yesterday chi cagoans may sleep in comfort to-night for cool weather is promised for to day preceded by thunder showers by to-morrow the weather man expects the temperature will register in the seventies showi3hs are near the sun probably will get in a few torrid rays before the thunder show ers arrive but the forecaster was confident when he closed the weath er office last night that the high mark of 98 registered yesterday would not be approached from sunrise until the maximum was reached yesterday the thermom eter's hourly records showed from one to three degrees hotter than monday but a sprightly breeze played through offices and homes bringing some relief hundreds of persons were pros trated however and horses fell by the score 100,000 in lake every bathing beach was crowded all^day the great rush however started at 5 p m and by 7 probably 100,000 persons were in the laek the largest crowd was at claren don beach which it was estimated r 000 visited throughout the day fifty-first street beach had 10,000 and the smaller beaches were packed to capacity the number who bathed at the foot of the streets running down to the i lake along the north shore from wil on avenue to the city limits fully i vvs equal to that at the regular bv&bes off shore breeze drove off the warfc surface water and chilly wa te vom the depths rushed inshore be f plun nd chattering teeth were \ b i i'd rother fr-fr freeze than r â– ;. 'â– 'â– said one little girl so hurrah forv si lake mich thermomv'rs at street level ln loop and ma u acturing districts reg istered from f to 103 degrees ln the shade while iip the sun several re garded as relialv showed 106 list of the la*ad bering michael itfty 1322 had lin street died at home daulberg mamie twenty seven 6027 ellis avenue body at co-mty morgue dei-ins michael thirty-five 1322 u.s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” thun der showers and cooler wednesday followed by generally fair and con siderably cooler at night and thurs day moderate to fresh southwest to northwest winds temperature for twenty-four hours ending 7 n m : ' hikhest on lowest 7p mean stt vorinnl temperature for the day 73 precipitation for twenty-four hours mn.e relative humidity 7 a bl 72 2 pi ou 47 7 p m 44 baiometric inessure leduced to sea level \ t m 2u.bs 7 b . m 29.74 sunrise today 4:45 sunset t moon sets a m luursday ym . \ japan ready to withdraw from slues regards germany an enemy only in modified sense britain's concessions in china ajhorn washington notified in semiof ficial way by japanese states man in magazine article washington july 31 â€” evidence that japan regards germany as an enemy only in a modified sense and is desirous of ending the alliance with great britain has been brought to the attention of this government unofficially it is admitted that such a step if carried out might change the map of the world so great would be its effect on the outcome of the strug gle the attitude of japan is set forth in a statement written by represen tative yonedat a member of the jap anese house in the foremost political magazine of his country after saying that the anglo-jap anese alliance as revised in 1911 vir tually absolved great britain from the duty of assisting japan in the event of hostilities with the united states the japanese statesman said in part although germany may be re garded as a common enemy in a very modified sense in so far as the anglo-japanese alliance is con cerned that country is now de prived of her base of operations in the far east possibility of a clash the possibility of a clash between great britain and japan over china was referred to in this way of all the european nations the british have the most developed ideas in regard to rights and they stand for their rights in even the most trifling matters the ques tion for the japanese people to de cide is to what extent are the brit ish claims justifiable in 1899 the british minister con cluded an agreement with the rus sian minister defining the zones wherein the two countries could build railways without opposition from each other the british chose the yangtse valley as their zone the hostile attitude as sumed by the british press in re gard to the sino-japanese nego tiations in 1915 was chiefly based on the yangtse valley question line is drawn but should britain attempt to es tablish a special position in the whole of south china by putting the widest possible construction on the interpretations of the yangtse valley a clash of interests will in evitably occur between japan and britain as japan holds formosa we can not afford to leave the whole territory from hong kong to the yangtse at britain's disposal unless the question is amicably settled before long it may assume serious dimensions such as will af fect the stability of the anglo japanese alliance ohio democrats quit politics during war â€¢ r-olumrtts 0 july 31 the dem ocratic state vutive committee ha3 decided thai i-ow is the time to wage Â„â€¢ o rma..v and not on the re scat party hei.ce it refused to o^n headquarter Â„. to get a press agent for monti ohio wil have to struggle along without its regular diet of politics li-yuan-hung seen as chinese president pekino july 31 - ig-kuo-ching to-day declared fte a ,, ct want the presidency li-1 uu-.ig is men tioned as the exe t ve tuan-chi jui republicans are cfgntizing a re public with canton : e the capital berlin to pay bulgar and turk expenses zurich july 31 germany has notified turkey and bulgaria that she will assume all expenses incurred by these countries in the campaign of 1917-1918 Chicago draft tests on today boards begin physical examina tions to select 24,982 men for new armies Chicago begins selecting men for the new national army this morn ing physical examinations will be con ducted in approximately one-third of the city's eighty-six exemption di visions all of the remaining divi sions will be under way before the end of the week chicago's task consists in selecting men from civilian life and transferring them to the ranks of the nation's defenders alien problem up again on the eve of the official beginning of the work of selection officials o various boards last night expressed fear they would not be able to fill their prescribed quotas practically all of the divisions in which aliens predominate face this problem in an acute form as the number of eligible citizens registered is not believed sufficient to allow for rejections based on physical de fects division no 20 which embraces the steel manufacturing district of south Chicago presents a problem not paralleled in any other section of the city a total of 5,037 men are registered the quota is only 290 but even this small number seems unattainable be cause of the following facts disclosed yesterday by edward robey chair man of the board approximately 45 per cent are aliens and so automatically exempt about 30 per cent are skilled rnechan ics employed in mills and factories engaged on government contracts of the remaining 25 per cent many are employed in the shipyards from which the government probably will be willing to spare but few men ex aminations in this division will not begin until saturday morning only 66 eligibles left division no 39 of which graham taylor is chairman also has a large alien problem which is complicated by an exceptionally high proportion of men with large families according to mr taylor a poll of the twen tieth precinct of this division showed 674 men registered deducting aliens and men with dependents there were left but 66 single mee some of whom doubtless will be eliminated by the physical examination , a further difficulty of alarming proportions was discovered in this division when lt was learned more than 10 per cent of the men registered have movoct s ; nce registration diay without notifying the bqarr of thjir new addresses doubts draft evasion i do not believe many of these men are guilty of deliberate or in tended evasion of the draft said mr taylor the majority are foreign ers probably ignorant of the law board no 44 has delayed issuing its call in the hope its alien compli cation will be straightened out by legislation before the actual work of selecting its quota begins in division 75 exemption claims to date have been exactly 100 per cent of examinations dr c f weir an nounced last night that he had ex amined thirty men all of whom claimed exemption becai<.s^>f depend ents divisions beginning physical exam inations this morninjr will complete this part of their won friday night slackers and war brides face jail general crowder warns youths of penalty for rushing into mar riage for purpose of escaping liability for military service washington july 31 the young men who have thronged to marriage license bureaus since july 20 in hope the government would exempt them from army service probably have got mar ried in vain they may even have committed a misdemeanor and be liable to prose cution if this is so their war brides as aiding them in the mis demeanor also will be liable to pros ecution warning issued by provost marshal provost marshal general e h crowder aroused to-day by the re ports of throngs of men of draft age invading the marriage license bu reaus in the larger cities made this perfectly plain he announced by section 6 of the conscription act any person who evades or aids another to evade the requirements of this act is guilty of a misde meanor and local boards are au thorized to warn persons who claim discharge on the ground of mar riage contracted since the date of the act that both parties are liable to prosecution under this pro vision if in fact the marriage was contracted solely with intent to evade the performance of military duty marriage alone no ground for exemption marriage is not of itself valid ground for making claim of dis charge a man whose wife is main ly dependent on his daily labor for support may claim exemption on that ground only the exemption boards can determine this fact where de pendency is claimed and the cir cumstances show a hasty marriage since july 20 by a man whose num ber is high on the available list the actual fact of dependency must be closely scrutinized baker may request more strict measure if necessary said secretary ba ke tg-6 n y we will ask the presi dent to i.mend the regulations to get at these slackers if that is not enough we may ask congress for further legislation on this subject the new instructions of the provost marshal point out that tentative esti mates say 10 per cent of the men passed by local boards will be dis charged by district boards or at mo bilization camps boards have been instructed to call 200 per cent of their quotas seven days after this call has been sent out claims for exemption received will be filed on data thus obtained a new call sufficient to complete 110 per cent of the quota will be sent out immediately the first effect of this last rule was to create the rumor of a second incre ment being called officials pointed out that this is only a definite re quest that the boards continue to draw sufficient men to fill the quotas previously allotted eitel kaiser's 2d son gets war command copenhagen july 31.â€”ad vices from berlin say em peror william has appointed prince eitel frederick second of his six sons chief of the first pomeranian field artillery reg iment no 2 the appointment was made it was announced in recognition of the prince's services during the war as a troop leader prince eitel is thirty-four the crown prince a year older heads the army that since february 1916 has been trying vainly to take verdun the third son adalbert is in the navy prince oscar the fifth son was reported early in the war to have been recalled from the front on account of a breakdown due to shell shock so far as known princes august william and joa chim are still serving in the ger man army pledges kaiser russ downfall von hindenburg promises to put republic out of action in two months london july 31 an official statement from petrograd issued to day says according to reports of secret service agents the present german offensive was undertaken as the result of detailed testimony con cerning internal conditions of the russian army placed in the hands of field marshal von hindenburg who it appears had promised em peror william that in two months he would put russia out of action more than 2,000,000 russian troops constituting the seventh and eleventh armies and their reserves are steadily retreating from galicia it is conserv atively estimated in petrograd the eighth army which is largely cavalry and not included ln the foregoing figures also is retreating and its position says the correspond ent of the post is extremely crit ical the germans are straining every effort to capture it while following up the eleventh and seventh armies and it looks as if the eighth army might be caught in a bag panics are suppressed a dispatch to the times from the headquarters of the russian seventh army says the situation is more hope ful panics among the retreaters are suppressed ruthlessly three divi sions of cavalry have taken positions across the whole front of retreat a dispatch from berlin says em peror william left mitau twenty-five miles southwest of riga russia and went down the river to the riga front where he complimented the troops the berlin tageblatt's correspond ent at austrian army headquarters gives the number of cannon captured by the germans in the russian re treat as seventy those taken by the austrians numbering nearly 200 teutons are repulsed north of husiatyn on the russo galician frontier the russians yes terday restored their position on the east bank of the river zbrocz says the official statement issued to-day by the russian war department aus tro-german efforts to force a passage across the zbrocz in the region of pukliany and dodlipie were frus trated send t r army to russia rebel pleads a m'alester okla july 31 8 magoffin commander of jefferson lee camp confederate veterans sent a telegram to president wilson to day asking that 100.000 southern men be sent to the russian front with roosevelt commanding â€¢ continued on sth page 4th column continued on 4th page 4th column

1 i "' vbhh Â„" k>mgmtmmwâ€”^â– h bsv Chicago examiner vol xv no 191 a m wednesday Chicago august 1 1917 wednesday u rs&gfl price two cents ffg gggg j allies's drive takes 11 towns president losed in foof fight huh mm wilson leaders house conferees open finish fight to knock out provision for congressional committee on the conduct of the war 11 t hington july 31 the f Â£ mate and house conferees ' ! on the food control bill were still deadlocked over the provision for a joint committee of congress on expenditures and conduct of the war when they adjourned tn-day to meet to-morrow it was made plain thai tha house conferees acting under the control of the president and the administration are making a last-ditch fight to stricken out the provision for the joint congress committee so bitter ly opposed by the president wilson supporters tear that if the house is given the opportunity to vote there will be a scant majority in favor of the joint committee and the president will then have no other choice but to accept the com mittee or veto the entire measure wilson sees criticism of himself in clause the president has taken the stand that the appointment of a joint com mittee would be a serious reflection upon him and upon his conduct of i the war up to this time congressmen who ... or such a com mittee declare that the president wrongly interpreted the motives of congress that the committee would simply represent congress as the war-making branch of the govern ment and prevent any scandals in expenditures thai might disrupt the country and affect its war spirit wilson men defeated in fight on measure to-day on a motion by senator hoke smith of georgia senators chamberlain smith of georgia and smith of carolina all democrats voted to strike out the clause four senators gore kenyon page and warren voted against the motion and it was lost the senate conferees then voted in favor of reporting the bill back to both houses with the statement uiat they had reached an agreement on the eilire bill with the exception of the provision for the joint committee and to ask for further instructions deadlock for weeks may be result it was after the senate conferees i had voted to report the bill back that the house conferees showed their un willingness to ask instructions from the house on this provision and dis closed their plan to fight to the end to defeat the provision in confer ence as the food control bill originated in the house the house conferees hold the whip hand and can hold back a report indefinitely in order to work their will , the fight will be renewed to-day and if no agreement is reached before they adjourn the deadlock may last for weeks will die lie pierce 3d defense i german positions pulverized bv heaviest barrage fire war ism seen houses forty miles aww rocked by bombardment london july 31 eleven vh lages and to"-ns and more than 3,500 gerrhan prisoner were captured by the british to-day in the opening hours of sir douglas haig's mighty offensive in flanders the long-expected storm broke at dawn this morning franco-british troops overran and consolidated the german first line trenches on a front of approximately 30 miles trenchea being seized at some points to a depth of two and a half miles and smashed on to the teuton's thir line the positions they jjl had been pulverized by thefl edented british bombardmertÃŸ average gain to v de9th of two miles the average depth of the mm was two miles at steenatraete^m gain was just that distance v^b the capture of bixschoote the brÃŸ ish advanced their lines two and on3h half miles on the ypres open road Â« mile advance was made the fate of lille roubaix and turl coing three great industrial town of northern france depends upon th germans withstanding the allies on slaught offensive developing momentum rapidly the great battle one of the fiercest of the war is still rs.cing the al lied offensive according to the night report of the war office is exceeding all expectations and is developing momentum rapidly the front now aflame extends from warneton close to the franco-bel gian border line north to dixmudea which lies ten miles from the shore \ of the north sea the lys river is j the southern boundary and the i bloody yser the northern the great , ypres salient lies just north of the ] center of the line stormed in the opening hours of the mighty offensive which began at dawn the j german first line trenches probably i the nearest impregnable ever built â– were leveled by a rain of british shells never equaled in modern war 1 fare barrage fire heaviest / / ever raised i the british infantry aided jy i strong french forces went into the battle behind the heaviest barrage fire ever raised before an attacking army as the storm broke the german line held by the army of crown prince rupprecht was sent reeling backward all three lines of trenches i were overrun and consolidated be tween the northern side of the vpres salient and boesinghe from boes inghe to dixmude the northern limit of the drive the second line german i trenches are to-night in ijruisi^j hands bombardment shakes houses 40 miles away m the nitiht official statement r m berlin dismisses the great tl ive u i paragraph it asserts tin , lie brit^m sh were repulsed on oth dd i tu ypres and were ible to vain onyfl one shell cratei in t german mm fense zone aw the london war office on tht^^r russ embassy staff in Chicago friday i washington july 31 boris b bakhmetieff russian ambassador 1 and the embassy staff will visit chi r,cago friday and saturday a trip rk\v:!l be made to the great lakes eiaval station and the jewish quar fc^^a polish demonstration will r^rl germans eager for peace call from vienna copenhagen july 31 the semiofficial vienna frem demblatt says it is able to an nounce authoritatively that ger many gladly will act on peace overtures coming by way of vienna the cologne gazette a copy of which has been received here reproduces the fremdemblatt's statement u s flotilla chases u-boats destroyers engage submarines after merchantman is sunk and another attacked american naval base ln british waters july 31 amer | ican destroyers to-day reported hav | ing engaged two submarines simul taneously six miles distant causing both of them to speed away and sub merge without firing a shot one of the submarines had just sunk a steamer by gunfire the sec ond was attacking a merchantman when the destroyers opened fire the second submarine which is described as a super type almost as long as a destroyer raced off and submerged at the first shots but the other wnici had sunk the steamer remained up sevc al minutes while the destroy er droppd shells around her firl ge>s too close only whe a shell splashed within twenty five terds of the submarine did she Ã¼brmvg . according to the crew of the e watched the attack fron â– . -â€¢â€¢ it close by the latu ted by the destroyers and hi here a french tank und for amer ica came into port to-day with a 30-foot hole in her bow as a result of a fight with a submarine the tank er was twice attacked in the first attack early in the voyage she easi ly beat off the submarine and reached a point 400 miles toward america hole torn in ship she was then attacked by a:'ottie submarine the shells of which spite the stout resistance of " laimc er's gunners shattered the piict house smashing the compass ana tore a gaping hole below the water line the tanker began to settle and the crew . abandoned the ship the submarine disappearing the crew rowed away in a rough sea but later surprised that the tanker did not sink returned to her and managed without bearings to bring her to port rita beauregarde noted actress dies new york july 31 â€” mme rita beauregard noted character act ress in private life mrs margaret harris died at bellevue hospital to day she was born in boston fifty six years ago played with robert mantell anl roland reed and was character ead with the dearborn stock comjany of Chicago u.s steel will pay 53,918,872 war tax new york july 31 â€” the united states steel corporation will pay 53,915,57 to th government in war income a'ld excess profits taxes it was sho:.n in the financial state ment of the directorate to-day colorado to give 10 in gold to soldiers denvmr july 31 â€” the colorado legislate voted to-day to give every sÃŸier of the state a 10 gold piece i r rain to day to break heat 20 are killed official record shows mercury hit highest point at 98 but this is surpassed on streets many factories close at noon laborers in open forced to quit 100,000 throng beaches high temperatures with fatality lists are reported from the following cities : town temp 1 Chicago 98 20 detroit 104 o rochester fi y 104 1 philadelphia 101 s < imiliii 100 1 cleveland 104 14 tittnliiirkh 02 11 new york 8 23 the backbone of the heat wave is broken â€” following twenty deaths and hundreds of prostrations from the heat in Chicago yesterday chi cagoans may sleep in comfort to-night for cool weather is promised for to day preceded by thunder showers by to-morrow the weather man expects the temperature will register in the seventies showi3hs are near the sun probably will get in a few torrid rays before the thunder show ers arrive but the forecaster was confident when he closed the weath er office last night that the high mark of 98 registered yesterday would not be approached from sunrise until the maximum was reached yesterday the thermom eter's hourly records showed from one to three degrees hotter than monday but a sprightly breeze played through offices and homes bringing some relief hundreds of persons were pros trated however and horses fell by the score 100,000 in lake every bathing beach was crowded all^day the great rush however started at 5 p m and by 7 probably 100,000 persons were in the laek the largest crowd was at claren don beach which it was estimated r 000 visited throughout the day fifty-first street beach had 10,000 and the smaller beaches were packed to capacity the number who bathed at the foot of the streets running down to the i lake along the north shore from wil on avenue to the city limits fully i vvs equal to that at the regular bv&bes off shore breeze drove off the warfc surface water and chilly wa te vom the depths rushed inshore be f plun nd chattering teeth were \ b i i'd rother fr-fr freeze than r â– ;. 'â– 'â– said one little girl so hurrah forv si lake mich thermomv'rs at street level ln loop and ma u acturing districts reg istered from f to 103 degrees ln the shade while iip the sun several re garded as relialv showed 106 list of the la*ad bering michael itfty 1322 had lin street died at home daulberg mamie twenty seven 6027 ellis avenue body at co-mty morgue dei-ins michael thirty-five 1322 u.s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” thun der showers and cooler wednesday followed by generally fair and con siderably cooler at night and thurs day moderate to fresh southwest to northwest winds temperature for twenty-four hours ending 7 n m : ' hikhest on lowest 7p mean stt vorinnl temperature for the day 73 precipitation for twenty-four hours mn.e relative humidity 7 a bl 72 2 pi ou 47 7 p m 44 baiometric inessure leduced to sea level \ t m 2u.bs 7 b . m 29.74 sunrise today 4:45 sunset t moon sets a m luursday ym . \ japan ready to withdraw from slues regards germany an enemy only in modified sense britain's concessions in china ajhorn washington notified in semiof ficial way by japanese states man in magazine article washington july 31 â€” evidence that japan regards germany as an enemy only in a modified sense and is desirous of ending the alliance with great britain has been brought to the attention of this government unofficially it is admitted that such a step if carried out might change the map of the world so great would be its effect on the outcome of the strug gle the attitude of japan is set forth in a statement written by represen tative yonedat a member of the jap anese house in the foremost political magazine of his country after saying that the anglo-jap anese alliance as revised in 1911 vir tually absolved great britain from the duty of assisting japan in the event of hostilities with the united states the japanese statesman said in part although germany may be re garded as a common enemy in a very modified sense in so far as the anglo-japanese alliance is con cerned that country is now de prived of her base of operations in the far east possibility of a clash the possibility of a clash between great britain and japan over china was referred to in this way of all the european nations the british have the most developed ideas in regard to rights and they stand for their rights in even the most trifling matters the ques tion for the japanese people to de cide is to what extent are the brit ish claims justifiable in 1899 the british minister con cluded an agreement with the rus sian minister defining the zones wherein the two countries could build railways without opposition from each other the british chose the yangtse valley as their zone the hostile attitude as sumed by the british press in re gard to the sino-japanese nego tiations in 1915 was chiefly based on the yangtse valley question line is drawn but should britain attempt to es tablish a special position in the whole of south china by putting the widest possible construction on the interpretations of the yangtse valley a clash of interests will in evitably occur between japan and britain as japan holds formosa we can not afford to leave the whole territory from hong kong to the yangtse at britain's disposal unless the question is amicably settled before long it may assume serious dimensions such as will af fect the stability of the anglo japanese alliance ohio democrats quit politics during war â€¢ r-olumrtts 0 july 31 the dem ocratic state vutive committee ha3 decided thai i-ow is the time to wage Â„â€¢ o rma..v and not on the re scat party hei.ce it refused to o^n headquarter Â„. to get a press agent for monti ohio wil have to struggle along without its regular diet of politics li-yuan-hung seen as chinese president pekino july 31 - ig-kuo-ching to-day declared fte a ,, ct want the presidency li-1 uu-.ig is men tioned as the exe t ve tuan-chi jui republicans are cfgntizing a re public with canton : e the capital berlin to pay bulgar and turk expenses zurich july 31 germany has notified turkey and bulgaria that she will assume all expenses incurred by these countries in the campaign of 1917-1918 Chicago draft tests on today boards begin physical examina tions to select 24,982 men for new armies Chicago begins selecting men for the new national army this morn ing physical examinations will be con ducted in approximately one-third of the city's eighty-six exemption di visions all of the remaining divi sions will be under way before the end of the week chicago's task consists in selecting men from civilian life and transferring them to the ranks of the nation's defenders alien problem up again on the eve of the official beginning of the work of selection officials o various boards last night expressed fear they would not be able to fill their prescribed quotas practically all of the divisions in which aliens predominate face this problem in an acute form as the number of eligible citizens registered is not believed sufficient to allow for rejections based on physical de fects division no 20 which embraces the steel manufacturing district of south Chicago presents a problem not paralleled in any other section of the city a total of 5,037 men are registered the quota is only 290 but even this small number seems unattainable be cause of the following facts disclosed yesterday by edward robey chair man of the board approximately 45 per cent are aliens and so automatically exempt about 30 per cent are skilled rnechan ics employed in mills and factories engaged on government contracts of the remaining 25 per cent many are employed in the shipyards from which the government probably will be willing to spare but few men ex aminations in this division will not begin until saturday morning only 66 eligibles left division no 39 of which graham taylor is chairman also has a large alien problem which is complicated by an exceptionally high proportion of men with large families according to mr taylor a poll of the twen tieth precinct of this division showed 674 men registered deducting aliens and men with dependents there were left but 66 single mee some of whom doubtless will be eliminated by the physical examination , a further difficulty of alarming proportions was discovered in this division when lt was learned more than 10 per cent of the men registered have movoct s ; nce registration diay without notifying the bqarr of thjir new addresses doubts draft evasion i do not believe many of these men are guilty of deliberate or in tended evasion of the draft said mr taylor the majority are foreign ers probably ignorant of the law board no 44 has delayed issuing its call in the hope its alien compli cation will be straightened out by legislation before the actual work of selecting its quota begins in division 75 exemption claims to date have been exactly 100 per cent of examinations dr c f weir an nounced last night that he had ex amined thirty men all of whom claimed exemption becaif depend ents divisions beginning physical exam inations this morninjr will complete this part of their won friday night slackers and war brides face jail general crowder warns youths of penalty for rushing into mar riage for purpose of escaping liability for military service washington july 31 the young men who have thronged to marriage license bureaus since july 20 in hope the government would exempt them from army service probably have got mar ried in vain they may even have committed a misdemeanor and be liable to prose cution if this is so their war brides as aiding them in the mis demeanor also will be liable to pros ecution warning issued by provost marshal provost marshal general e h crowder aroused to-day by the re ports of throngs of men of draft age invading the marriage license bu reaus in the larger cities made this perfectly plain he announced by section 6 of the conscription act any person who evades or aids another to evade the requirements of this act is guilty of a misde meanor and local boards are au thorized to warn persons who claim discharge on the ground of mar riage contracted since the date of the act that both parties are liable to prosecution under this pro vision if in fact the marriage was contracted solely with intent to evade the performance of military duty marriage alone no ground for exemption marriage is not of itself valid ground for making claim of dis charge a man whose wife is main ly dependent on his daily labor for support may claim exemption on that ground only the exemption boards can determine this fact where de pendency is claimed and the cir cumstances show a hasty marriage since july 20 by a man whose num ber is high on the available list the actual fact of dependency must be closely scrutinized baker may request more strict measure if necessary said secretary ba ke tg-6 n y we will ask the presi dent to i.mend the regulations to get at these slackers if that is not enough we may ask congress for further legislation on this subject the new instructions of the provost marshal point out that tentative esti mates say 10 per cent of the men passed by local boards will be dis charged by district boards or at mo bilization camps boards have been instructed to call 200 per cent of their quotas seven days after this call has been sent out claims for exemption received will be filed on data thus obtained a new call sufficient to complete 110 per cent of the quota will be sent out immediately the first effect of this last rule was to create the rumor of a second incre ment being called officials pointed out that this is only a definite re quest that the boards continue to draw sufficient men to fill the quotas previously allotted eitel kaiser's 2d son gets war command copenhagen july 31.â€”ad vices from berlin say em peror william has appointed prince eitel frederick second of his six sons chief of the first pomeranian field artillery reg iment no 2 the appointment was made it was announced in recognition of the prince's services during the war as a troop leader prince eitel is thirty-four the crown prince a year older heads the army that since february 1916 has been trying vainly to take verdun the third son adalbert is in the navy prince oscar the fifth son was reported early in the war to have been recalled from the front on account of a breakdown due to shell shock so far as known princes august william and joa chim are still serving in the ger man army pledges kaiser russ downfall von hindenburg promises to put republic out of action in two months london july 31 an official statement from petrograd issued to day says according to reports of secret service agents the present german offensive was undertaken as the result of detailed testimony con cerning internal conditions of the russian army placed in the hands of field marshal von hindenburg who it appears had promised em peror william that in two months he would put russia out of action more than 2,000,000 russian troops constituting the seventh and eleventh armies and their reserves are steadily retreating from galicia it is conserv atively estimated in petrograd the eighth army which is largely cavalry and not included ln the foregoing figures also is retreating and its position says the correspond ent of the post is extremely crit ical the germans are straining every effort to capture it while following up the eleventh and seventh armies and it looks as if the eighth army might be caught in a bag panics are suppressed a dispatch to the times from the headquarters of the russian seventh army says the situation is more hope ful panics among the retreaters are suppressed ruthlessly three divi sions of cavalry have taken positions across the whole front of retreat a dispatch from berlin says em peror william left mitau twenty-five miles southwest of riga russia and went down the river to the riga front where he complimented the troops the berlin tageblatt's correspond ent at austrian army headquarters gives the number of cannon captured by the germans in the russian re treat as seventy those taken by the austrians numbering nearly 200 teutons are repulsed north of husiatyn on the russo galician frontier the russians yes terday restored their position on the east bank of the river zbrocz says the official statement issued to-day by the russian war department aus tro-german efforts to force a passage across the zbrocz in the region of pukliany and dodlipie were frus trated send t r army to russia rebel pleads a m'alester okla july 31 8 magoffin commander of jefferson lee camp confederate veterans sent a telegram to president wilson to day asking that 100.000 southern men be sent to the russian front with roosevelt commanding â€¢ continued on sth page 4th column continued on 4th page 4th column